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Pasture Management
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Kikuyu grass - love it, hate it!
Monday, 18 March 2013
Kikuyu is a grass species which prompts strong positive and negative reactions, with many people happy to ‘kik-yu’ out the door for suggesting it has its merits.
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A gorse is a gorse of course, of course...
Monday, 21 January 2013
...And no one can love that gorse, of course! However, while it may be a weed, at Rural Living we realise gorse has become so synonymous with the New Zealand landscape, and the scourge of farmers. That makes it worthwhile addressing yet again.
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Tradescantia - shady invader
Monday, 19 November 2012
Rural Living regularly looks at plants that are most welcome in Kiwi gardens. However, this month we enlighten readers about a ‘shady character’ that’s long been the bane of gardeners and farmers alike.
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Keeping pasture from going to seed
Monday, 19 November 2012
Caring for the green, green grass of home may be as easy as bringing the cows home for farmers to whom pasture management is a practice they grew up with.
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Fighting off invasive, fast growing flannelweed
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Flannelweed (Solanum mauritianum), also known as woolly nightshade or tobacco weed, is one of the most invasive weeds of roadsides, wastelands, plantation forest, bush, bush margins and revegetation plantings. What’s more, given the chance it will invade farmland.
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Last chance for thistle clean up
Monday, 24 September 2012
“One year’s seeds, seven years’ weeds!” – this old adage is one landowners should heed when it comes to thistles.
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Spring is sprung, the grass is rising high
Monday, 24 September 2012
For those with mares foaling, cows calving, ewes lambing or just young stock to feed, the answer for all that extra grass is obvious. But the long awaited lush growth is not without challenges.
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A wise farmer bales feed now
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Novice small block farmers facing their first summer on the land will hopefully have done their research when it comes to hay and silage.
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Secret divulged to yield boost
Friday, 30 September 2011
Commercial farmers are reaping the benefits, quite literally from using the first C02 foliar fertiliser.
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Greener pastures require work
Friday, 30 September 2011
Pasture pests are many and varied. There’s the likes of grass grub, black beetle, army worm, clover root weevil and porina larvae but, of course, weeds always pose one of the biggest problems.
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Effective ragwort control
Friday, 25 March 2011
One of the most invasive-and toxic-pasture weeds is ragwort (senecio jacobaea) but the good news for local farmers is that the golden-yellow flowers of this plant are now much less common in the Franklin district.
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Making good use of chicory
Friday, 25 March 2011
Seeing pretty blue flowers appearing in dairy pastures doesn’t mean farmers have lost the plot and planted a flower meadow.
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A clean sweep
Friday, 25 March 2011
Spring cleaning might be ideal indoors but autumn provides the perfect time for tidying and preparing the outdoors for winter.
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Hedging options for livestock shade, shelter
Friday, 25 March 2011
Travelling through the McKenzie country on a scorching summer’s day it was impossible to ignore the number of sheep in large paddocks with not a tree in sight.
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Nitrogen essentials
Monday, 27 September 2010
Nitrogen fertiliser promotes growth in plants and is the easiest and often the cheapest way to increase pasture growth. Plants deficient in nitrogen look pale green, stunted and yellow compared to their lush, green nitrogen rich counterparts.
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